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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
"Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
"You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business."
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
"Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes."
Explore more quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it."
"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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